The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1941, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 61 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXII. No. 78. Proposed Bil Would Require , Bridge Commissioners 10 Bé } 4 Another Measure To Pro- ivide That County At- jtorney Be Chosen By i Electorate Appointment of a Monroe coun- attorney would be taken out bf the hands of the county com- jion and two Overseas Road ind Toll Bridge District commis- sioners who do not live in this county would be removed under the terms of two bills described today by Representative B. C. Papy. Representative Papy, who has been confined to his bed for two weeks by an attack of influenza, will leave for Tallahassee this aft- | ernoon at 5 o'clock to begin his{ legislative duties. Papy’s bill would put the coun- ty attorneyship in the hands of the electorate along with other county posts over which the com- Gov- | ernor Spessard L. Holland, under the terms of the bill, would be empowered to appoint an attor- ney to hold the office until the next general election in 1942, The law firm of W. Curry Har- ris and-Julius #.-Stone;-Jr., was given the county attorneyship by the commission last month after it had become apparent that At- torney Harris, who originally held the post, would be unable to re- turn from his army duty in Tex-! as. Representative Papy’s measure, providing for election of | the toll district commissioners, would make the positions open mission has no avthority. fai Residents Of Monroe County HOME GUARDS {MARINE CORPS EXPERTS TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS TO MEMBERS Home guard members tonight | will have a detail of marine corps irifle experts to give instruction and demonstration for the week- ly guard armory indoor range. The weekly meeting will get under way at 8 o'clock and the usual drill session will precede the target practice. Competition MEET TONIGHT Che Kry West Citizen Key West, Florida, has ‘the mast equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TU ESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941 MASS PRODUCTION OF ARMY BOMBERS IS NOW PLANNED |QUALITY TO BE CONSIDERED AS WELL AS QUANTITY IN AMERICA’S DEFENSE PRO- GRAM 2. Balkan tension climbed toward the explosion point today as an! official German spokesman called | Nazi-Yugoslav | jstate of grave crisis” By JACK STINNETT AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, _ April {Not since the days when facturers first performed the ‘miracle of rolling automobiles loff a continuous production line has there been so much talk of m: production as has been jraised by national defense. | It was big, unexcitable “Bill” | Knudsen, chief of production ;management, very much in the jpink in spite of the strenuous du- ties of these days, who told me ithe other day, that in his opinion 1— ane relations “in a and Bel-; t had planted | mines under roads leading to the! frontier. | Berlin that British} Foreign Minister Anthony Eden! and Gen. Sir John Dill had reach- ; ed Belgrade and were studying! defense plans with Yugoslav} military chiefs. Belgrade, admit- ting the pair might make a visit, | |the layman misunderstood about | denied they had arrived. / imass production”. German Minister Viktor von | “My favorite definition of it”,|Heeren has crossed the Yugoslav! jhe said, “is that it is not a matter | frontier on his way to Berlin and \of quantity or mass at all, but of Official German dispatches said iquality—of raising the production |@ll Italians and Germans have left grade announcea insisted Tension: In Balkans. Tightens; Yugoslavia Stands Pat; Nazi Regulars Massed On Frontier U.S. SEIZURE OF FRENCH SHIPS NOW IMMINENT: i ALL OF VESSELS TIED UP IN} THIS COUNTRY HAVE BEEN | PLACED UNDER SURVEIL- LANCE Senator Pepper States Be Called Next Month For ‘Actual Construction Of Water Pipe Line British Use New Type Of | Super High Explosive Bomb | Program Of Improvements LONDON, April 1.—Royal wc ROOSEVELT BACK WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1. (Special to The Citizen) ' (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 1.—Seiz- | ure by the United States of 19 i French ships tied up in this coun- try appearea imminent today as the treasury department an- new type of super high explosive | Will Also Call For Sea- Force bombers last night shat-| AT WHITE HOUSE Be espe |—'Florida is rapidly developing plane Base To Be Estab- tered industrial sections of Emden | WILL EXPLAIN SEIZURE oF into one of the greatest military lished At Key West and Bremen in Germany with a| FOREIGN SHIPS THIS _ 2#eas of the nation and the pros- AFTERNOON , Pect is that there will be a con- bomb, it was announced today. | Ship yards and rail centers in Emden were reported to have been smashed to bits and flyers said flames from the burning city | could be seen 120 miles away. One nounced that the vessels have flyer said he saw whole houses | between the two companies of [of each item to the greatest de-|the hostile Serb section of Yugo- been placed under surveillance. Key West School, today received his pointment from President Roose- velt as chairman ot county selective service board. guards has been started and mem- bers of both groups hung up scores in a special contest Satur- day. Col. D. G. Hatfield, marine {corps commandant here, said he would send sharpshooters and experts riflemen from his com- mand to help out in the contest and give novices among the guard members some regulation instruc- tion. Home guard Capt. Fred Marvil, who here from a trip to Miami, brought with him enough regu- Tai tion small arm targets to carry | jon the contest and practce. O’BRYANT ON DRAFT BOARD Horace O’Bryant, priricipal of Junior-Senior High ap- the Monroe O’Bryant will replace Juan F. jFleitas, who resigned last week | other | because of a ruling which forbids ; employment of two members of a mily on the draft board, The appointment, which was recently returned } \gree of perfection. | “I remember years ago when Leland was president of Cadillac. He took three of his cars to Eng- \land. He called in a group of |British engineers. He tore those jthree cars down, put all the parts |together and mixed them up. The engineers thought he was cra told him he never would get those cars back together again. But he jinto three cars just as good as the jones he had torn down. That’ |mass production”. Americans Don't Wonder What caused the British engi- j neers to go boogle-eyed has ‘be- jthe average American doesn’t even bother to think of it any more. slowly out of the army and de- @auses no amazement in the mind of John Q. Public, who has come to think that American industry has no limitations, will probably cause as much wonder abroad as Mr. Leland’s demonstration. It is this: The army air corps, with the cooperation of the Office jof Production Management, is up to the ear-phones in its helmets in plans for mass production of two- and four-motor those huge 11- and 23-ton ships, and ar- |did. He reassembled those parts | come such a commonplace that ; But a story had dribbled : fense agencies here which, if it, bombers— | {slavia and many are getting out of the country. | (Belgrade called jnurses to active duty and an- ‘nounced that its army of nearly a million and a half men is ready to fight if attacked. Apparently, |there is little chance that Yugo- slavia will permit ftself to be bluffed, and neutral observers feel the start of war may be a matter of hours. | German neswpapers have in- ‘tensified their campaign against |alleged Yugoslav terrorism with | banners reading “German villages burned” and “Slavs attack Ger- mans.” London diplomats have pre- dicted that Germany may launch a double assault against Yugo- slav and Greece almost at any ‘minute. Some 75,000 German regulars are said to be massed on | !the north Croatia frontier. A possible peace effort is con- | }tained in rumors current in Rome | ;that Premier Mussolini may be! jcalled upon to play a prominent | role in a mediation of the dispute, | |but most European capitals be- lieve the Belgrade defiance of Adolf Hitler has reached a point where there can be no_ settle-; ment. | Red Cross |GUARDS SURROUND |U. S. EMBASSY only to Monroe county residents. It also would give Gov. Holland , power to appoint a board of com-! missioners upon passage of the | bill to serve until the general election. Under the terms of the meas-} ure, John Slade, chairman of the | board, who is from Lake City, and | John Kennedy, Fort Lauderdale, | probably would be removed from ' the board and two other members | appointed by Governor Holland to serve until 1942. Papy today reiterated his con- vietion that no sales tax law should be passed without attach-, ment of a referendum clause. The city council has discussed such aj bill, but Papy said he will oppose (Continued On Page Four) Legionn Delegations from the Key West Convention corporation will ap- pear this week before city coun- cil and the county commission in reference to the American Le- gion’s state convention here April 23-21 It was decided last night at a meeting of the board of directors of the corporation to ask the county commission for the re- mainder of the sum due'the cor- poration. It was stated this sum is $490. That is the balance due on an old punt of $1000 which the commission appropriated to the rporation. Further, the direc- ied to ask the county commission for authority to use the county courthouse grounds for tors dec , parking Tt was stated in a letter sent to Mayor Willard M. Albury today sk city council to pass a res- parking in Southard order city next city council that a total of 40 policemen, half of' a i ide evelt Which, heavily armed signed by President Roosevelt | 3 TNS Anvcetated Peena) aires Making Plans For April Convention and Gov. Spessard L. Holland, makes O'Bryant chairman of the board for an indefinite tenure. AIR SCHOOL FOR ALBANY, GEORGIA: linitial program are expected to; (By Ansociated Prexs) WASHINGTON, April 1.—Al-| jbany, Ga., today was’ given a $: 800,000 advanced air school, the first of nine which will be estab- lished by the army for pilot training. Contracts for the been let and the school is ex ed to be in operation by July 1 Final them mounted motor cycle men from Miami, would be available to Police Chief Ivan Elwood, and that funds be made available by city council to pay for the white way lights in Duval street during the convention. The Key West Electric com- pany is cooperating in the plan to have the white way lights turned on, Albert Mills, executive direc tor of the corporation, reported It will take approximately $50 for the use of the white way lights and the corporation wants the city to bear this expense. Then, too, the corporation wants the to allot what bleachers it can for the drum bugle corps demonstration to West Barracks the night of April 25. The corporation will pay for hauling and erecting the bleach ers Mills a unced of Cuban rracas, the filled with seeds, had been the corporatic city that 500 pairs pur 40 & 8 and the execut sto the Key West work have! imiles with their death-dealing jloads of bombs, without refuel- ling. Maj. Gen. air corps, house su ‘first bombers G. H. Brett, of the testifying before a ‘ommittee, in the | | lroll from the assembly lines in 1942 and the program is expected 'to be complete in 1942. If I re- ;member my arithmetic at all, ‘that means thet withiy two years, America willbe turning out ten | of these giant bombers a day, 300 | ja month. And these in addition to the same type bombers being manufactured by private firms, pect- /of which there are at least three | jnow operating at full speed and {rapidly expanding Four Assembly Plants Here is the way the program will work, according to Knudsen }Contracts already have been signed with the automobile in- and sub-contracts signed with {smaller manufacturers on more jthan 400 items that go into the big bombers. Plans are complete and some work started on the four huge assembly plants, at Omaha, Kansas City, Kans., Tul- sa., Okla., and Fort Worth, Tex When these plants are finished jand the big and little manufac turers have completed retooling and expansion parts for the bombers, tooled to that necessary millionth of an iftch, will to those four cities from all ove the United States to be assem dj. tested and delivered. come eee TROPICAL PACKAGE LIQUOR STORE Complete line of PACKAGE LIQUOR, BEER, IMPORTED and DOMESTIC WINES PAUL NEWHOUSE. Prop. 629 Duval Street Next to Lee’s Food Center Free Delivery Phone 94 jmored, can range 2,000 to 3,000; dustry for manufacture of parts, | ROME, April 1.—Heavy police {guards surrounded the United |States embassy and Yugoslav le- gation here today as crowds of wildly cheerin® Italians hailed the arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Thousands of Rome citizens poured into the streets shouting “long live Japan” and “down with | the plutocratic democracies.” | Matsuoka, who has completed a week of conferences with Adolf Hitler and high-ranking govern- ment officials in’ Berlin, is ex- pected to begin at once a series of talks with Premier Mussolini and | ForeigtrM™ittister Count Ciano. + | Newspapers in Rome have de- clared that Matsuoka would re- turn to Tokyo immediately upon his departure from Rome and the iresults of his talks would be dis- jclosed then. It has been under- stood the purpose of the conversa- tions was to draw Japan into more active participation with ;Germany and Italy in the Axis TUESDAY {Stone Church Service Club. 6:00 | pm Key West H National Gu: p.m. THURSDAY Club De | City counci 8:00 p. m Rotary Clut ‘ Lions meets at 6:30 pm m | | ty Courthouse 8:00 pm FRIDAY &. Key West Arena, Simon- ton and Fron Boxin, | With 69 German, Italian and Danish ships already under coast ‘guard control after a series of | swift weekend raids, observers ' here feel that the government will attach the French vessels and possibly seize French naval ves- sels at Martiniqiue. | | Among the French ships tied { up in United States ports is the $80,000,000 liner Normandie, sec- | jond largest liner afloat. | State department officials, | meanwhile, have made no an-j| swer to the formal protests filed | by Berlin and Rome against seizure of the merchant ships| Saturday and Sunday. It has| been clearly indicated, however, that neither President Roosevelt | nor Secretary of State Cordell Hull will consider the protests and a firm rejection is expected. The Danish legation has indi- cated it would make no ‘od: caged | against the coast guard’s action! in taking over 39 ships flying the | Danish flag. ' LIEUT. HILTON BUYS PROPERTY | Lieut.-Comdr, Carl H. Hilton of ithe coast guard has purchased for ' about $10,000 the Cocoanut Drive home of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony | Yates, it was learned today. The purchase, subject to the terms of a mortgage, brings Com- mander Hilton a 168-foot front age on Cocoanut Drive in the Key West Foundation company subdivision. The property backs on the canal. Commander Hilton said he plans to occupy the home with | his family, Mrs. Hilton and four | children. The home is a_two-; story concrete structure of Span- | ish design. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last night 24hours | 52 7 ! 45 | 38 H 32 i Abil Boise Boston Buffalo Casper Charleston Chic 67 Zo De nl Paso Hatteras uron Jacksonville KEY WEST Los Angeles Mismi Minneapolis ashville w Orleans | York Okla Pittsburgh Sait Lake ity San Francisco Spokane Washington DAYS UNTIL the AMERICAN LEGION’ STATE CONVENTION " SOUTHERNMOST FLOWERS for weddings. graduations. anni- versaries, funerals. High quality. NEW LOW PRICES 6 Duval Phone flying through the air after the} new bombs had exploded in the) factory district. A northeast town in England, meanwhile, suffered the first German raid the island has felt in a week and the air ministry admitted that casualties had been heavy. (Berlin identified Hull and East Yarmouth as the scene of two at- tacks and reported both had been severely damaged in a two-hour raid.) ' (Dy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 1— President Roosevelt. back at his White House desk after a Florida vacation, is expected to make a statement this afternoon about the seizure of 69 German, Italian and Danish ships by the coast guard Saturday and Sunday. The President, who began al- location of war supplies to Greece and Britain immediately upon his arrival in Washington, probably | will explain at a press conferencg. i the reason for the seizures and his | siderable expansion of the cur- ;?ent program of construction when the new fiscal year begins in July”, Senator Claude Pepper said today. As an indication of the extent of the present military establish- ment in Florida, the senator pointed out that construétion of approximately 200 miles of “ac- cess” roads to camps and bases ‘will be needed if the necessaries are done. |59,000 tons, well below the war MAKE REPORT ON SHIP LOSSES LONDON, April 1—The ‘ad- miralty today revea A in merchant losses to Germany for the week ot March 23 and published the strength of the British fleet which destroyed a large part of the Italian navy over ; the week-end. Ship losses for the week ending March 23, they said, dropped to $250,000,C00 Road Bill Senator Pepper declared that it is expected the President may measure setting up a new safety {5nd to the Congress during the zone in the waters of the Atlantic, present week a request for an The size of the proposed zone has ‘appropriation of $250,000,000 for not been disclosed, but the sen- | highway construction. Of this, he ator suggested it would provide Raid $150,000,000 will be. needed haven for British ships and would for construction of access and be guarded and guaranteed bY | other highways incident to the Hee ele Gears | nation’s military establishment. |The remaining $100,000,000 will HOMESTEAD CLAIM jbe the régular Bureau of Public the improvement of existing main {highways in the defense pattern Roads fund which will be mateh- TODAY IS FINAL FOR FILING and principally in strengthening ‘answer to formal protests filed by ; Rome and Berlin. { Senator Claude Pepper of Flor- | ida, meanwhile, has proposed Since the Spring cam- paign began, it was estimated, German ships have destroyed 393,000 tons of British shipping. Admiralty figures for the fleet ‘which took part in the Indian sea battle put British strength at three battleships, four cruisers, average. ithe senator said, will be spent on destroyers and the aircraft carrier | ‘ed by the states. Most of this, Italy, it is claimed, APPLICATIONS WITH TAX Formidable. |had three battleships, 11 cruisers, and destroyers. An admiralty spokesman the battle was of historic portance because it marked the said im- first time that aircraft have been | ,. used effectively in conjunction with a fleet in actual battle. GEO. MACHADO DIES SUDDENLY George Machado, age 60, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at 6:00 = o'clock while walking through the city cemetery Funeral services will be held this afternoon, 5:00 o'clock, from the residence at 1329 Simonton street, Rev. Guillermo Perez of the Latin Methodist church offi ciating Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Ramona Machado; a daughter, Mrs. Georgina Sweeting; a son ntonio Machado; brother, Vincente Machado, and a grand- child. all of Key West, and a sis ter, Miss Louise Machado, of Mi ami. Pritchard Funeral a Home is in ‘charge of arrangements. ALFONZO LET OUT ON BOND TODAY he Aurelio Jacinto Alf on a statutory charge. was leased undies $500 bond this rurn ing by Peace Justice Enrique E: quinaldo, Jr. Al will ap pear for a hearing tor morning at 10 o'clock Nattie Saunders, he support on the affid Juliette Saunders. leased onder $100 ber pear before Esquinaldo this aft ermoon Erskine Sands, charged petit larceny on the complaint of Mrs. Abelardo Lopez, also has been released under $100 bond until he is granted a hearing this afternoon. tomorrow id for non of wife was re a d, to ap with ASSESSOR GANDOLFO Applications for homestead ex- emptions climbed to 1509 today ssor Claude Gan- dolfo prepared to end registration at 5 o'clock. If there is a rush on the office at closing time tonight, ndolfo said he will remain open, but otherwise the office will close at the ,regular time. Applications still are under last year's figure, but Gandolfo said today he believes stricter regula- tion of the homesteaders this year will hold the total down. ‘weak links of roads and bridges. Seaplane Base At Key West | The Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy is expected to ask for bids within the next thirty days on the dredging of two sea- plane ways at Key West, each 10,000 feet, in length and the esti mated cost is $1,500,000, accord. ing to Senator Pepper. He said he was advised that the “spoil: dredged up will be thrown west of the Key West Navy Yard to connect up two small islands which may be utilized later on. He said that approximately $2 700,000 would be expended in ad ditional aviation facilities, in- ‘(Continued on Page Four) Building Permits During First Quarter Of This Year Exceeded Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars Key West home owners, who took out building permits last totaling $16,235, have been granted permits for a total of $55,658 during the three months of 1941, a check of Build- ing Inspector Ralph Russell's figures revealed today. Lifted by a $1,600 total in the month's busiest working session yesterday, March building figures stayed about the $16,000 mark for the fivurth suecessive month, but showed a marked decrease from month i the high point of $22,676 reached in February Permits issued during March were to Bill Spencer. 1112 Eaton et. $300 phead, 0; Raul Center, $500; Andres Marrero, 319 i $306 Mercedes Car 610 Duval. $900, BE A nk, Angela and Simonton, 1%, W. Maloney, 1415 Thomp- $800; W. F. Brenner, Blanch $100, R. J. Albury, 512 Grinnell, $200; H. Lioyd, Royal street, $390 Lawton E. treet Watson, 915 South- am W. Arnold. 10 United, $500; Rarnon Navarro, 613 Caroline, $500; Mrs Hester Johnson, 524 Francis, $75; John- nie Walton, 763 Elizabeth, $50; Elizabeth L. Rowan, Avenue E, $250; Mrs. E. Brown, 1402 Pine, $200; Mrs. Black, Duval and Caro line, $100; Angel Torres, 737 Whitehead, $50; Victor Watkins, 630 Margaret, $100; Jose Bonza, 1206 Pgtker, $100; Frank Sosin, 722 Duval, $500; Mrs. Maurice Saul, 618 Grinnell, $1500; James D. Roberts, 508 Amelia $250, T. R. Pritehard 900 White $300; TR. Reid. 136 Thoma $100; Shedrack Hanibal, 725 Thomas, $100; Annie Page, 419 William, $190; Hollon R. Bervaidi, Washington street, $5000, T Luther Pinder, 1319 Duval. $500 ishing Co, Inc. 707 $500; Mrs. Collins, 914 Pauline, $160, George Adams 1107 Olivia. $100; Jesus Sancher. 1216 Petronia, $75; Mrs. D. Curry 619 Canfield, $75; Vincent Molina Margeret street, $50; De. Renedo. 1011 Division, $100; Clarice BR Dickson, 902 Division, $100; Mr, Hanah Knowles, 1213 Eliza. $160 Seagrove, 612 William, $900; C Harrington. White snd Duncan streets, $190; Harry Duncan, Olivia street $100; Mrs. E Burn- side, 1102 Amelia, $100.